Bust-supporter.



A. DRAKE. BUST SUPPORTER.

APPLIOA'TION FILED SEPT. a, 1906.

929,407 Patented July27, 1909.

WITNESSES INVENTO/fl 861W 3? W lgneaial rak 4T TOR/VEK I To ell whom it may concern:

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ALMEDA DRAKE, F BROOKLYN, New YORK,

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' Application filed September a, sealant; Y

Be it known that I, ALMEDA Diinkn, a citizen of the United Statesp residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and'nseful Improvements in'Bust Su'pporters, of-which the following is a specification. 4

My invention relates to bust supporters or more particularly to wearihg apparel which ".form of the wearer as will be more ully de-q is adapted to be usedin'eonjunction with corsets and assist the same in sha ing the scribed the following s) ecification, set

forth in 'the claims and il ustrated. in the lent women who find the ordinary corset of little use or an undesirable. adjunct on account of its liability to break under the strain drawings acco-m anying this application'and V forming a part t ereof and wherein the same reference characters are used to designate the same parts in the various figures.

' Figure 1 represents the figure of a woman wearlng my improved su porter. f Fig. 2 is a rear View of the same. ig. 3 is a front ele vation'rernoved from the wearer. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view ofa modified form of the invention.

This device is particularly useful to corpus of their size. and weight, and. in consequence of which to produce a corset which wou'id be ofservice to a person of more than the average size, the corset of suilicient strength would require such bracing and thickness of ;material as to be exceedingly uncomfortable.

Inorder to overcome thls undesirable fea-' ture of the average corset I provide this supso' as to relieve t any desired material and whose ends are plemental bracing to be worn about the corset at the points where the strain is greatest preserve the form of the wearer and e corset of'the excessive strain put upon it. v

The device consists of a band 5 of fabric of rovided with buttons 6 which engage the but ton holes 7 of the adjacent end in order to fasten the device around the bust of the wearer. The band 5 is provided with loops or straps 8, having adjusting buckles 9, to

- fit over the shoulders of the wearer in order to shoulders.

throw the strain of the, weight upon the It is evident that an adjustment of the device is verynecessary and for this reason the-buckles 9 will be found veryserviceable-in lifting or lowering the device around the form of the wearer. p

In order to adapt the device to the use of take of an 'I provide I V certain means of adjustment which may be linzwerige shaped sections sue ondue; strain 11 on t 'elcdr's'ets,

t 0 lower edge 0 thab'iind -with over-laps'formed' by taking a the material as. shown at 10, an. sewing thelsectiondown making it permanenhor I may cut out darts or gores 11 and attach straps on each side securing)a y buckle 12 to one-soithat the space formed the-darthnay be adjusted to decreaseor increase the extent of the lower line of the band as may beIi ecessary or desired, preferably the' diameter ofthe lower edge of the band when adjusted'should be equal to the ably. The upper'line 'of theband is e ual to the dimensions of the corset along t eir upper edge but may be provided with adjustments such as along the lower edge if found desirable so that the device may be ad'usted toa nicety. 1

am aware that it has been'a common practice to employ what is commonly known as a corset cover for thepurpose of conceal-1 ing the corset and at the same timefor the sake'of cleanliness but this device afiords assistance instrengthening the corset when the wearer is of such proportions asto seriously endanger the corset and not only break v acifigs.

,same.

"waist of the wearer-or fit the same comfort- In'practice the band is worn slightlyabove the upper edge of the corsets so. that this edge 1s relieved of the strain of the form of fleshy persons and the excessive weight is carried entirely by myimproved supporter} What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: i

A cover for a corset horrijirising a sin piece garment made of flexible, inelastic abrie in the form of a band of such length;-

as to entirely encircle the corset and of such? height as to extend from the waist-line to" the top of the corset and provided-With ver tically-disposed open darts space d*around the cover and, extending inwardly from-the" top and bottom edges to pointsfapproxitop and edges thereof and on the outer; sun-- face and'consisting of straps and buckles for verying the gaps of,the open darts, saLid stra s extending" across the open darts and l longltudinally of the cover, meanson the ends of the band for securing the latter in position on file body qf the person, shoulder straps each consisting of two-partsof differcnt length end seeliredto the bend at the top edgethereof, the shorter perts being arranged in front, andbuckles on the shorter 1-5 s 3 parts of the straps for permitting of vertical i adjustment of the'cover.

In testimony whereof, I afl'ix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' ALMEDA DRAKE.

V vvitne ssesz p Mrs. THEODORE HUNT, 1 ADRIENNE MCMAHON. 

